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Continue reading →: Half a virtual tour
Tonight was spent messing around in the studio, trying to get class prep finished for some of the things I’m doing this month. Last weekend was my only free weekend this month. This weekend: teaching on Saturday in Poughkeepsie, NY. Next weekend, Butler County Spinners and Weavers Guild, and the…
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Continue reading →: Further Refinement
Yesterday’s googlefight prompted a comment from Michael. He pointed out that I missed “cardweaving”, which could upset the match. So I ran a new fight: tabletweaving: 5240 cardweaving: 3280 added to yesterday’s scores: “tablet weaving” 4920 “card weaving” 2830 with final results of: T 10160 C 6110 leaving “tablet” firmly…
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Continue reading →: Unseasonable
It was 72F today. I live in Pennsylvania. It is the first week of March. The previous record was 65F. Today beat the record by seven degrees. I was lured outside by the weather. It’s too early and too wet yet to do much in the yard and garden, but…
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Continue reading →: Because I was curious
Googlefight: tablet weaving: 4920 card weaving: 2830 And…. tablet weaving wins, 2 to 1. Edit: LJ broke my post, even though it worked fine in WordPress, so I changed the googlefight link to the home page. You’ll have to type in “tablet weaving” and “card weaving” yourself if you want…
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Continue reading →: Spring in Pennsylvania
… looks something like this. That’s the sidewalk under there, just after dawn sometime last week. We’d had a hard rain on frozen ground, with nowhere for all the water to go. I’m slowly digging myself out of this pile, and hope to be back to blogging regularly in a…
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Continue reading →: Colonial Sheep
The current issue of Agricultural Research has an article about the preservation of two heirloom sheep breeds, the Hog Island and the Leicester Longwool. I always enjoy having an excuse to read about wool on company time.
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Continue reading →: Poppets see the future
I’ve already introduced you to poppets and their pastimes, and have inspired at least two readers to bring some home. What I didn’t realize was that poppets are talented prognosticators. Through their powers, I’ve learned more about the origins of these mysterious creatures, and am sharing my new insights with…
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Continue reading →: Tablet weaving class
A bit of advertising: There are still a few seats left at the weekend tablet weaving workshop hosted by the Butler County Spinners and Weavers Guild, March 21-22. I’ll be teaching a day of general tablet weaving – equipment, setup, following patterns, drafting simple patterns – with an emphasis on…
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Continue reading →: A distraction
I am buried in a pile of unfinished manuscripts, unsorted photographs, random links to be posted, incomplete blog posts, and skeins of yarn to be wound. To distract you from the chaos lurking behind the WordPress facade: enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Retrogression
A week ago I saw the first tiny snowdrop shoot. Hooray! By Saturday afternoon, it had many companions. The little green shoots continued to emerge, but it was a bit hard to tell in Wednesday’s sleet. And this morning? They’re under there somewhere. I hope.
Welcome!
I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.
I also do some science and write some fiction.
I’m Phiala most places on the internet.
